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Subject: Incorrect locale support for decimal_point
From: david@boe.es (David Guerrero)

Hi!

I opened Bug #25246 some days ago. The bug was closed as "bogus" by Sniper.

I think that this issue (locale numeric settings) is not correctly 
addressed in the php core. And i would like to open a discussion about 
it, because i think is a very important one.

As stated in the bug report, this breaks backward compatibility with 4.2 
and older releases. I think that an innapropiate patch broke this in the 
end of 2002.

The question is that databases returns float values with "," or "." 
based in its own locale (good locale behavior). I can't understand why 
php could not work with these settings as usual. Why the new "reset the 
locale setting" is better?

There is not a workaround solution for applications manipulating those 
values (maybe an database function returning floats always with ".").

Please, consider this as a genuine bug as this could make a lot of 
people outside the US, to stick with older versions of PHP.

Thanks.
David.

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Dpto Tecnologias de la Informacion                    Telf: 91 384 16 13
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